Every year during the summer months, observant Jews spend three weeks expressing increasing levels of national mourning that commemorate tragedies that befell the Jewish people in the distant past.

I recently read, How Summer Camps Should and Shouldn’t Observe Tisha B’av, and harking from the British Isles, this list came as a surprise. UK camps would always start after Tisha B’av, aside from...

Many thinkers, artists and poets spanning millennia have tried to depict the importance, splendor and spirituality of Jerusalem, with maps such as that produced by 16th century Heinrich Bunting...